mergecookies - Merge all your cookies for all of your browsers
mergecookies [ --config file ] [ --verbose ]
mergecookies reads all your cookie files for which a HTTP::Cookies module exists and is installed, merges all the cookies (if two identical cookies (same name, same domain) are found, the one that expires the later is kept) and saves them back in each cookie file.
This way you can share your cookies between all your browsers.
The configuration file looks like the following:
# filenames are relative to $ENV{HOME} or absolute Netscape .netscape/cookies Mozilla .mozilla/book/kdtqv86o.slt/cookies.txt Mozilla .phoenix/default/bt7ivopl.slt/cookies.txt # file in the HTTP::Cookies format LWP /tmp/lwp-cookies.txt # there is no HTTP::Cookies::Opera for now :-( #Opera /home/book/.opera/cookies4.dat
Each line holds the name of the HTTP::Cookies module (Mozilla for HTTP::Cookies::Mozilla and so on) used to read the cookie file and the path of the file (absolute or relative to $ENV{HOME}). Cookies saved with HTTP::Cookies require the LWP keyword.
LWP
mergecookies accepts the following command-line options:
Read an alternate configuration file.
Print the list of cookies handled by the script.
Philippe "BooK" Bruhat <book@cpan.org>
This script was created as an example of use for the HTTP::Cookies modules. Version 0.01 appeared in GNU/Linux Magazine France 57 (in French).
This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install mergecookies, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm mergecookies
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install mergecookies
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.